SuperComputing '06

I attended the Super Computing '06 conference in Tampa, Florida and it was a good conference. Unlike other surface level conference, this one is a very serious event for the HPC customers. Most of the big players in the industry were present in the conference and this conference is mainly focussed on the HPC space...There were lot's of discussion about data center problems like power,heat,space,etc...

I saw many Universities around the world(US,Japan,Korea & Europe) were present and lot's of new research projects going on in Grid computing & HPC space...There was even some talk about new programming languages like X10 for HPC applications. NORDUGRID is one such research project and there was also something about NDL(Network Description Language)...

I couldn't able to attend any of the presentations as I was busy with meeting our customers & presenting in booth. I understood that there was good presentations over there and check out the conference website for the details.

I was also surprised to see that some HPC customers are developing applications in Java and they want to see how to run Java applications in a Grid environment...It was surprising because these apps are traditionally written in Fortran,C,etc... Good to see that Java is making some in roads into HPC space...

Last but not least, Tampa is a wonderful place and it's in the inner coast...beautiful weather, beaches, nice downtown and you can find many good restaurants....Good place to visit and Orlando is only 2 hr drive from here. I took Continental Airlines and not sure whether i will fly again with them!!! I didn't find the service good and more over, i have to stay overnight in Houston, Texas as i missed my connecting flight to San Jose,California because of my flight from Tampa got delayed...

It was a great experience for me.